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Sysomos Acquired By Marketwire

Dave Fleet

In recent months we’ve seen several interesting moves within the social media monitoring/social CRM space. Now we’re seeing another significant player in a similar move, as Toronto-based Sysomos is acquired by news wire service Marketwire. Update: Sysomos has confirmed the acquisition. Acquired by.

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Why Influence Mining is the Next Gold Rush | social crm | Social.

Convince & Convert

Cheers, Sheldon, community manager for Sysomos [link] 40deuce I agree that influence mining will definitely be a huge thing in the next year or so. Customer service? Knowing whether to respond to or ignore negative comments on a blog? McCann , Viral Heat Did you enjoy this blog post? It will be interesting to watch.

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What Does Salesforce-Radian6 Deal Mean for Everyone Else?

Net-Savvy Executive

The announcement's not exactly a surprise—Radian6 was the obvious acquisition target in social media analysis (SMA), and their platform had supported Salesforce integration since mid-2009. Aquisitions say something about the segmentation of social media analysis.

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Is Your Twitter Addiction Paying Off

Convince & Convert

Certainly, it’s not a comprehensive influence formula like Klout , or other Twitter-influence arbiters ( interesting study this week from Sysomos ), but it’s easy to calculate, and I think it makes sense. So, I’ve started to look at followers per tweet as a metric that focuses on the efficiency of time spent.

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Convince and Convert Blog: Social Media Strategy and Social Media.

Convince & Convert

To be fair, I’ve only included those I’ve actually used (Radian6, Sysomos, Spiral 16) or tested (Meltwater, SM2). However, many of the tools I mentioned above, Radian 6, Sysomos, etc, have a management/response component included in their workflow model. Also, thanks for having Sysomos in your comparison.

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Convince and Convert Blog: Social Media Strategy and Social Media.

Convince & Convert

Twitter’s role as a conduit for the Zeitgeist is unrivaled, and it has almost single-handedly ushered in the era of real-time search, and social CRM. According to these numbers, the audience using Twitter actually declined from August to December, 2009 (during the same period, Facebook went from 250 million to 350 million members).

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Wow Online Influencers With An In-Person Experience

Convince & Convert

Cheers, Sheldon, community manager for Sysomos [link] Marina Maher Comm. Instead of just handing off a product and hoping the influencers said good things, they went out of their way to make us feel important, and I think that will deffinitly go over well when any of us say anything about the promotion. All rights reserved.